Historical Note: Dr. Thomas M. Bushnell was a retired professor of Agronomy at Purdue University and died at Lafayette, Indiana, January 20, 1976. He was born in Monticello, Indiana, April 5, 1889. He received a B.S. in Agronomy from Purdue in 1912.

Sources: A more complete biography can be found in the folder for Dr. Bushnell's papers. It is reprinted from Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science for 1976, Vol. 86, 1977.